Senin, 28 Juni 2010

Lantana (plant)

The lantana (Lantana, Syn: Kamara Adans., Riedelia Cham.) Is a plant genus of the verbena family (Verbenaceae).

Description

In Lantana species is mostly woody plants: shrubs or climbers, rarely, small trees or herbaceous plants. Often the plants are slightly rough or prickly.

The always simple, stalked leaves are opposite, lively sometimes three to four, the, square in his youth, arranged branches. The leaf margin is often notched, and the leaf blade is on most of them heavily wrinkled.

The flowers are in dense heads, with the individual flower stalks are more than short, and overlooks the oval to lanceolate bract small, skin-like sepals. The calyx is short. The corolla is almost double lip somewhat further and very easy: it can be four or five parts lobed.

Of colors of the petals is almost everything: white, yellow, red, blue, purple. Some species also have two-tone crown. Often the corolla is discolored with age, in some species several times. It's just a circle with four stamens present. The stamp does not protrude out of the corolla tube.

There are a twosome formed to stone fruit, at maturity they are red, purple or metallic black. It is distributed by birds.



Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandelr%C3%B6schen_%28Gattung%29


See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist


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